A new report highlighted a growing number of Americans, and particularly Californians, who are planning to move overseas because they are “fed up” with the divisiveness of U.S. politics.
The Los Angeles Times spoke to global migration experts who’ve documented a spike in the number of Americans seeking to move out of the country since 2020, with many of them being California residents.
The number of requests this election year has already exceeded last year, global firm Henley & Partners said. The consultant company helps clients obtain residency and citizenship in other countries and said that about 80% of their U.S. clients want to leave the country because of political issues.
“They want an option to escape,” Basil Mohr Elzeki, who leads the North American operations for Henley & Partners told the L.A. Times. “Now with the election, people have opinions on both ends, and they’re worried.”